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Changes to the GMC’s core guidance for doctors could lead to more regulatory investigations, the MDU warned today. The GMC is currently consulting on a new version of Good Medical Practice including widening the scope of the standards against which all doctors will be judged. Setting these standards is a key function of the GMC. By clearly… Read more »
A review of nurse practitioner cases notified to leading medical defence organisation, the Medical Defence Union (MDU), has found nurses now face a similar range of medico-legal investigations into incidents as doctors. Between 2017 and 2021, the MDU helped 400 nurse members with medico-legal processes including complaints, claims, disciplinary procedures and NMC investigations. The MDU… Read more »
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Members of the public should be able to grill the candidates for the Labour leadership at hustings around the country, Patricia Hewitt has said. It would be a “unique opportunity to renew Labour’s dialogue with the public” and ensure the party remained “in touch with people’s concerns”, the health secretary argued in an article for… Read more »
Gordon Brown today issued a gushing endorsement of Tony Blair’s premiership and insisted ‘he is my friend’. In a Sky News interview to be broadcast this lunchtime, the chancellor said Mr Blair had been a “wonderful leader” and the relationship between them “has been on of the strongest political relationships in history”. His comments come… Read more »
